Biology

Physiology

Tentacool resembles a box jellyfish. It has a light blue, clear body with two large, transparent, red crystals on each side of its body, and one small one in the middle. It has two small eyes with black pupils and no visible irises near the base of its body. It has two tentacles laced with stinging cells. The tentacles extend from beneath its round, blue lower body, which has a cape-like formation in the back.

Gender differences

Special abilities

Tentacool absorbs sunlight and refracts it using water inside its body to convert it into beam energy, as seen in the episode Tentacool and Tentacruel. It is also able to control Pokémon it touches with its tentacles.

Behavior

This Pokémon shoots beams from its crystal-like eyes, and are often found floating in shallow waters.

Habitat

Tentacool can be found throughout the ocean, usually congregating in places where warm currents and cold currents come together, and where minerals are plentiful. They are extremely common in Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh.

Diet

In the anime

Major appearances

Minor appearances

It also appeared in Friends to the End during Ritchie and Assunta's battle. However, it is unknown who it belonged to. In the same episode, another Tentacool under the ownership of an unknown Trainer, appeared during the closing ceremonies of the Indigo League.

A school of Tentacool appeared in a flashback in A Cacturne for the Worse. May fears them due to being surrounded by them at one point, and her mother trying to catch her, thinking that she was a Tentacool.

Origin

Name origin

Menokurage may be a combination of 目の敵 menokataki (enemy) and 水母 kurage (jellyfish). Alternatively, it may be a pun on the expression 目の毒 menodoku ("poison to the eye", referring to a tempting thing but one that must not be looked at), considering that its evolution's name is ドククラゲ dokukurage.